Siege of Port Hudson

May 22 – July 9, 1863 · Port Hudson, Louisiana

Result Union victory

22 May to 9 July 1863: the final engagement in the Union campaign to recapture the Mississippi River in the American Civil War, besieging Port Hudson, Louisiana.

On the map Contemporaries

Union

Confederacy

United States

Confederate States of America

David Farragut Rear Admiral, Naval commander cooperating in the siege

Nathaniel P. Banks Major General, Commander of the Army of the Gulf

Franklin Gardner Major General, Confederate commander at Port Hudson

Strength and losses

Strength: c. 30,000–40,000
Casualties: c. 5,0005,000
Wounded: 3,336
Missing: 319

Strength: c. 7,500
Casualties: c. 7507,208
Killed: 176
Wounded: 447
Captured: 6,340

Units

Army of the Gulf XIX Corps (Union army) West Gulf Blockading Squadron

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